Wishing the happiest of birthdays to my most darling ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) noteverything. *hugs*
Please know I am thinking of you today, as always, and I hope your day is as wonderful as you are. I am blessed to have you as a friend and sister. *hugs you some more*
I love you!
♥
( I haven't drooled over Brian in quite a while, but don't you think his eyes look greener here? :D :D :D )
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So, I've been working on Directions today.... it's so good to feel the fic flowing again. :)
I am going to try to finish it this weekend and send it for beta, although I may need next weekend to get it done. I should probably wait until after the Thanksgiving weekend to post it, shouldn't I?
In other news, I have bunnies for a Xena/Gabrielle fic, a Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer fic, and a Michael/Ben fic, and NO ONE but me really wants to read any of those things. It makes me sad, yo.
Although I also have a Drew/Emmett bunny and I know at least Travis likes to read those!
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OMG PEEPOLL,mpreg is real and I have the evidence!!!!
*iz a dork*
(Don't be afraid to look under the cut.It isn't THAT bad.REALLY!!)
( So,to make a long story short.... )
Talking about Xmas...have you been naughty or nice? *giggles*
If you would like to get a Xmas card from good old Germany with lots of teh love on it/in it, all you have to do is to PM me or email (qafmaniac@googlemail.com) me your address.
 If you gave it to me last year I still have it BUT if you've moved to a new place I totally,as in TOTALLY NEED your new addy. ;) *pokes vl_redreign♥ and not_yet_defined♥**goes back to play with my new mpreg!ass!baby* ARRGHH,see?He really needs a name!
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So sorry I didn't post the reminder sooner, but tomorrow, Sunday, at 8pm CET, we will be marathoning 105! Hope to see everyone there!
ETA: I'm an idiot. Its 106 not 105. *face palm*
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In an attempt to try to forget about my RL right now, I'm going to post some Favorite Fives. Lists of five related things, random topics, posting whenever I feel like it.
Feel free to play along if you want -
Tonight's topic: My Five Favorite Birthdays:
- 30th – I had a lot of trouble with 29 but by 30 I realized I was an adult and loved it.
- 7th – My mother packed us all hobo bags and we carried them on long sticks to the local park.
- 13th – I had a ‘come as you want to be party’ where everyone was supposed to come dressed as their future occupation. I went as a teacher which I was sure I would be. Turns out I’d make really lousy teacher.
- 12th - My birthday is on May 3rd and my party was on the 1st. My mother made a beautiful May pole with multicolor ribbons tied around it. Each one led to the place setting of one of the party goers. It was beautiful.
- 50th – My husband found 50 plastic flamingos and put them in our front yard with a big sign that said, “Look who flew in for a 50th Birthday". Then he made a May pole exactly like the one I had on my 12th birthday. I cried.
Anyone else have favorite birthdays?
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Does anyone remember me?
I'm slowly...very slowly starting to crawl out of my hole. Champ is doing a bit better but he's not out of the woods yet. His recent test results are positive and he's eating more and more on his own each day but I still have to feed him and he still has his stomach tube.
Anyhoo, I'm going to try to be around a bit more at least to check my flist. I feel so lost.
Anyone interested in being a Guest Host at ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) qaf_drabbles?
Also, I still need lots of REAL addresses for your prezzies from the Halloween Contest, so email them to me so I can finish getting those together.
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How is it possible I have no QAF Thanksgiving icons? I have every other freaking holiday!
Anyone help a fangirl out? Are there any Thanksgiving icons floating around you feel like sharing?
Love,
Xie
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Yesterday I decided that my kitchen really could use some redecoration and so I took today off from work.I bought some lovely orange/peach colored wallpapers and then I did my best...
( ...to make a mess )
I did a lot of cleaning after the mess that I've made (The snippets from the old wallpapers were EVERYWHERE!!!) and I'm not done BUT I guess the dirt can wait till tomorrow.I'm sure it will not go away....
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Never, ever go on vacation, especially a really good one.
The crash when you get back to real life is a bitch.
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Although I've made a small amount of peace with them, I don't like the headers so common in fan fiction. I despise ratings and I really hate warnings. I don't mind author's notes if they're more or less the kind of thing that might be on a book jacket, and I love acknowledgments, which are also commonly found on books.
There are lots of things I won't read, like death!fic, and many things that make me want to gouge out my eyes with a spoon, like MPREG, and yet, I hate warnings. If a book has difficult themes, no one puts a warning on it. It's either hinted at on the book jacket, revealed in reviews, or someone who read it tells you.
It feels like infantilism and spoon-feeding. And I'm a hugely triggered person on some issues, particularly rape, child abuse, and anything even remotely scary or dealing with the supernatural, particularly vampires.
Then again, I'm not really a fandom person. Queer as Folk is the only fandom I've ever played in online, and many of these conventions have arisen out of a collective fandom consciousness I'm only on the most outer faded-out fringes of.
But I simply don't want to categorize or tag or annotate my fiction with anything different than what might appear on the cover of a book. I've lost my shit when my fic, entered in festivals/carnivals/etc has been tagged by the mods with things like "femmeslash" or "slash" or "m/m" or "f/f" or whatever. They're stories. Shit happens in them. They're more or less about this, and it's thanks to so and so it was written.
I just don't care for all this WARNING and EXPLAINING and TAGGING and CATEGORIZING.
Grrrrr.
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Today at a store C and I saw a "Make Your Own-opoly".
I said, "Oh cool we could do a mixture of all our fandoms"
And she said, because she already has 5 versions of monopoly, I'm not kidding, "Or you could make your own QAF-opoly. Brian's Loft could be Board Walk."
After that a long discussion followed.
A couple of my favorite suggestions include:
Britin would be Board Walk.
The Loft would be Park Place.
The 4 Railroads would be Babylon, Woody's, The Liberty Diner and The Baths.
The first two cheapy places I suggested as Justin's apt circa season 5, and Ethan's Apt. But then C threw in that one should be the alley/street Hunter lived in. And I thought the other should be Justin's Black Bag. Because sadly, that was sort of his home.
We both agreed Jail could be the Taylor House.
Any other thoughts? We had ideas for many other abodes..The Girls' House, Deb's, Michael and Ben's, Ted's condo, Michael and Emmett's apt, Kinnetic. Etc.
I'd love to hear what you would do with the QaF world in Monopoly.
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The diner plays such an important role in the show that it almost seems like it's another character. It introduced us to Debbie and it's the perfect spot for the gang to hang out.
Some of my fave scenes take place at the Liberty Diner from the PRIDE scene to Em eating his donut with a fork and it goes on.
Share some of your fave diner memories!
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This is a fic I wrote for qaf_giftxchnge last year, a gift for my lovely qafmaniac . I tweaked it just a very tiny little bit from the original version, so let's consider this, rather than the one posted last year, as definitive!
The request was post-513 Brian and Justin, and it's the story of the first holiday season after Justin moves to New York, set during Thanksgiving, the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's Eve. Beta'd by testdog65 with the kind assistance of vamphile . Banner by roc_abs .
( A Holiday in Five Parts, by Xie... )
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Sign-ups for the Friends and Lovers Challenge close today!
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OMG,people!!!!
It's Monday and I'm already home and it's only 4:35PM here!
Isn't THAT just great?
YAAAAAAY!
Um....I'm just saying.lol
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